Bug 2543256 (CVE-2026-54875)

Summary:	CVE-2026-54875 openssl: openssl: information disclosure via non-constant-time SM2 scalar multiplication on ARM64 and RISC-V
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	abarbaro, akhatavk, alizardo, anthomas, aos-team-art-private, asdas, csutherl, dpaolell, ehelms, ggainey, jchui, jclere, jdelft, jhe, jpasqual, jupierce, juwatts, ktsao, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, mdellweg, mhulan, nboldt, nmoumoul, oaljalju, osousa, pcreech, pjindal, plodge, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, psrna, rchan, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, smallamp, suppawar, szappis, tmalecek, vchlup, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in OpenSSL. The optimized scalar point multiplication used for SM2 cryptographic operations on ARM64 and RISC-V architectures does not execute in constant time. An attacker capable of measuring execution times or observing processor cache-access patterns can exploit this side channel during decryption or digital signature generation. This vulnerability allows the attacker to deduce sensitive private keys or signature nonces, leading to information disclosure.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-29 15:54:33 UTC

Issue summary: A non-constant-time optimized implementation of scalar
point multiplication is used for SM2 private key operations on ARM64 and
RISC-V platforms.

Impact summary: An attacker able to measure the time taken by, or to observe
the cache-line access pattern of SM2 signing or decryption on an affected
platform can learn information about the secret scalar.

CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy

Description: On ARM64 and RISC-V processors, the SM2 curve uses an optimized
scalar multiplication implementation whose conditional branches and table
look ups are chosen according to the bits of the secret scalar. The execution
time and the cache-access pattern therefore depend on the long-term private
key (during SM2 decryption) or the per-signature nonce (during SM2 signature
generation), forming a timing and cache side-channel.

FIPS Impact: no
SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm and the optimized SM2 implementation is not part
of the FIPS module.

OpenSSL 4.0, 3.6, 3.5 and 3.4 are vulnerable to this issue on AArch64 and
RISC-V.

OpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.

OpenSSL 4.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 4.0.3.
OpenSSL 3.6 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.6.5.
OpenSSL 3.5 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.5.9.
OpenSSL 3.4 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.4.8.

This issue was reported on 2 May 2026 by Abhinav Agarwal.
It was independently reported on 6 June 2026 by Feng Xue.
The fix was developed by Igor Ustinov.

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Reported by: Abhinav Agarwal, Feng Xue
Fixed by: Igor Ustinov